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Hello to all , i have a really strange problem that i have no id how to fix and u all probably already know that -.- so first i didn't know what to look for in the forum cuz i've never seen such an error before and i wanna say sorry if there is already a thread like this one. When i start installing slack on my Acer Aspire 5024 i do my linux and swap partitions i write'em i go to setup and when i try to format the swap or the linux partition it just freezes and after a while the laptop just shutdowns by itself. On my normal comp i'v never had a problem like this one -.-

Hello to all , i have a really strange problem that i have no id how to fix and u all probably already know that -.- so first i didn't know what to look for in the forum cuz i've never seen such an error before and i wanna say sorry if there is already a thread like this one. When i start installing slack on my Acer Aspire 5024 i do my linux and swap partitions i write'em i go to setup and when i try to format the swap or the linux partition it just freezes and after a while the laptop just shutdowns by itself. On my normal comp i'v never had a problem like this one -.-

Hi,
What kernel?

I like to format my HD before I do a setup. First I will reboot the system after writing the new partition table. I will then do a;

Hello gwsandvik and thanks for the replay. I tried to do the "#mkswap -c /dev/hda2" and when i hit enter i get a "mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to 2097144kB" and the PC freezes just like when i do the same thing under the setup. The line is blinking and it stays this way until the laptop shutsdown -.- The same thing gose for the "#mke2fs -c -j -L Linux /dev/hda3". Its like if i couldn't write on the hd.
When i typed the "#dmesg |grep hd" i got these :
root@slackware:/# dmesg |grep hd
hda: TOSHIBA MK8025GAS, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-833S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected are => 1
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB), CHS=9729/255/63
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4

Hello gwsandvik and thanks for the replay. I tried to do the "#mkswap -c /dev/hda2" and when i hit enter i get a "mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to 2097144kB" and the PC freezes just like when i do the same thing under the setup. The line is blinking and it stays this way until the laptop shutsdown -.- The same thing gose for the "#mke2fs -c -j -L Linux /dev/hda3". Its like if i couldn't write on the hd.
When i typed the "#dmesg |grep hd" i got these :
root@slackware:/# dmesg |grep hd
hda: TOSHIBA MK8025GAS, ATA DISK drive
hdc: Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-833S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected are => 1
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB), CHS=9729/255/63
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4

and the #lspci -vv dosnt work :/

Any ideas why i get this kindda problem?

Hi,

First, when you partitioned the HD, did you make /dev/hda2 type 82?

You should be root when you are doing the setup or changes to the OS.

What is the output of;

Code:

#fdisk -l #show the hd

Remember to be root to do the cli for system changes. You can su and give the root password.